How can I Find the Average Color of a Photograph?

Many popular image-editing tools allow you to determine the average color of a small section of an image, but we couldn't find any that could calculate the average color of an entire photograph. Enter, the Average Color Tool.

Possible Uses

Convince your landlord that the carpet by the entry isn't as dirty as she claims it is.

Use your own travel photos to decorate a room; a well-chosen combination could dramatically emphasize the beauty of your photos.

Monitor how the greens in your garden change from season to season.

Choose your Image

Simply use the boxes below to upload a photo (.jpg or .jpeg files only) from your computer or directly from URL, and the average color tool will take care of the rest. (Maximum filesize: 2 Megabytes)

Image URL

Upload an Image

Samples

Here are some samples that we have processed through the average color tool. Thumbnails are displayed on the left, and the corresponding average-color-swatch is on the right. You can click on the thumbnails for larger versions of the photographs.